This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.

Restrictions on use:

To the extent that they own copyright, the donors and creators of items in this colleciton have retained copyright to these materials.

The creator of at least one item in this collection, Shark Week by Janice Quiles-Reyes has explicitly requested in the zine that it not be scanned and placed on the Internet. Users of this collection should consult individual zines for similar requests by other creators.

For reproductions of materials that are governed by fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold materials' copyrights and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from Smith College Special Collections to move forward with their use.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Additional zines have been purchased for the collection by the curator of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Processing Information

The origins of this collection are the 1999 donation from Tristan Taormino of the zines used as primary sources in A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World (New York: St. Martin's, 1997), which she co-edited wich Karen Green. Taormino donated additional zines to the collection in 2010.

In 2004-2005, zines that were originally part of the Tinúviel papers were added to this collection. In 2006, two individual zine collections were formally combined and processed as the "Girl Zines collection" by Burd B. Schlessinger and Indigo M. Pfaff-Powers.

Smaller quantities of zines from various sources have been periodically added to the collection since that time, including individual collectors, creators, and a "Zines Library" previously housed in the Smith College Campus Center.

Starting in 2017, the curator for the Sophia Smith Collection has added titles to the collection to intentionally expand and diversify its content.

In 2018, the collection was renamed from "Girl Zines collection" to "Sophia Smith Collection zines collection" in order to more accurately reflect its origins and content.